Bed-spring support.



No. 666,505. Pafented' Jan. 22, I966:

s. FREUND.

BED SPRING SUPPORT.

AppEcation filed Sept. 7, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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BED-SPRING SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,505, dated January22, 1901. Application filed September 7, 1900. Serial No. 29,27'7. (Nomodel.) v

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON FREUND, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bed-SpringSupports, of which the following is a full and complete specification,such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to supports for bedsprings; and one objectthereof is to provide an improved device of this class which forms aconvenient support for an ordinary bedspring and on which in practicethe spring is secured, a further object being to provide a support for amattress or bed-spring composed of separate parts yieldingly connectedand pivotally connected with a frame,whereby the spring itself on whichthe mattress is placed is yieldingly supported; and with these and otherobjects in View the invention consists in a bed-spring ormattress-spring support constructed as hereinafter described and claimedand to which in practice the spring is secured.

The invention is fully disclosed in the fo1lowing specification, ofwhich the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate partsof my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters ineach of the Views, and in Which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvedbed-spring or mattress-spring support, and Fig. 2 apartial section onthe line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings forming part of this specification I have shown at 5 aframe, which may be of any preferred construction, and in the practiceof my invention, as shown in Fig. 1, I provide eight spring-metal stripsor bars, four of which are connected with each end of the frame 5, asshown at 6, '7, 8, and 9. The connection of these strips or bars at 10may be made in any desired manner, and the two side strips or bars 6 atone side and the corresponding strips or bars 9 at the opposite side arepivotally connected at their inner ends, as shown at 11, and the stripsor bars7 and 8 at each end are crossed, as at 12, and the ends thereofare pivotally connected at 13, and the pivotally-connected ends of thestrips or bars 7 are connected with the pivotally-connected ends of thestrips or bars 9 adjacent thereto at each side of the frame by a spring14. The connection of the springs 14 with the pivotally-connected endsof the strips or bars 7 and 9 is preferably made as shown in Fig. 3, inwhich one end of the spring 14 is passed through the ends of the stripsor bars 7, as shown at 15, and forms the pivotal connection of saidstrips or bars, while the corresponding strips or bars 9 are connectedby a pin or rivet 16, on the lower end of which is placed a clip withwhich the corresponding end of the spring 14 is connected, as shown at18.

The springs 14' are spiral springs, and the strips or bars 6 and 7, 8and 9, and 19 and 20 are also composed of spring metal and may becomposed wholly or partly of spiral springs, if desired, and otherchanges in and modifications of the construction herein described may bemade without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificingits advantages.

In practice the mattress is secured to the frame 5 in the usual or anypreferred manner and rests on said frame and the spring andspring-connected members therein, but said mattress or bed-spring formsno part of this invention, and is therefore not shown and described.

By means of this construction I provide a yielding support for themattress or bedspring the separate parts of which are pivotallyconnected and also pivotally connected with a frame, whereby a yieldingand movable spring-snpport is provided for the mattress or bed-springwhich adds largely to the comfort of the occupant of the bed and rendersthe bed-springs and other parts more durable.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A support for a mattress or bed-spring, comprising aframe, spring-strips secured to the ends thereof at each side, andconsisting of two separate members pivotally connected at their innerends, additional spring-strips secured to each end of the frame, andcrossed approximately centrally, the inner ends of posite crossedmembers, and spiral springs my inventien I have signed my name, inpresconnecting the pivotally-conneeted en cls of ence of the subscribingwitnesses, this 5th day the crossed strips with the pivotally-conofSeptember, 1900.

nected ends of the separate members of the SIMON FREUND. 5 side strips,substantially as shown and de- WVitnesses:

scribed. F. A. STEWART,

In testimony that I claini the foregoing as O. O. OLSEN.

